Courses

Art and Architecture in Italy; 1250-1520

Christine Smith

This is an introduction to Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture from ca. 1250 to 1520 emphasizing style and technique. The course is structured in three…

Modernism / Modernity

Sarah Goldhagen

This reading-intensive seminar explores four dominant strains in the theorizing of modernism – Marxism and Critical Theory (Manfredo Tafuri, Hilde Heynen), Formalism (Colin Rowe, Robin…

Transition/Zagreb: Urban Condition and Spatial Practice

Eve Blau

The seminar is concerned with conceptualizing and examining transition as both a condition and spatial practice of the European post-communist city. A sequel to last…

Proseminar in History and Theory

K. Michael Hays

Prerequisites: Four graduate-level courses in this area or enrollment in doctoral program.This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture…

Analysis and Design of Building Structures II

Daniel Schodek, Tom Dawes

This course is a continuation of GSD 6201 and introduces students to the analysis and design of building structures. It addresses the analysis and design…

Science and Technology

Jonathan Levi, Thomas Schroepfer

City of Wood Timber, used for structure and finish, has dominated the American settlement project since its inception in the 17th c. Today, wood construction…

Environmental Technologies in Building: Climate and Thermal Behavior

Michelle Addington

Prerequisites: 6111-M1 or equivalent.This course examines the fundamental scientific principles underlying the thermal behavior of buildings and introduces students to the existing technologies for creating…

Innovative Constructions: cases in modern Japan

Mark Mulligan

Enrollment: limited to 12Course Description Modern Japanese architecture has been much admired in the West for its attention to materials, its refined construction details, and…

Innovation in Structure

Toshiko Mori

In our recent examples of architecture, visions of architects are enhanced by innovative approach in structure by leading engineers. They engage in early stages of…

Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing II

Daniel Schodek, Tim Eliassen

GSD 6320 Computer-Aided Design & ManufacturingDaniel L. Schodek and Tim Eliassen This course explores CNC technologies and related manufacturing processes as applied to architecture and…

Sustainability

Matthias Schuler

Analysis – Concepts for Greening GSD Gund Hall for a better comfort and less use of resourcesMost of the US-students and teachers are aware through…

Legal Aspects of Design Practice

Carl Sapers

This course focuses on the special obligations and privileges of a design professional. We study governmental regulation, taxation, accounting, and legal organization for a design…

Introduction to the Practice of Architecture

Carl Sapers, Vincent James

This graduate level course introduces basic aspects of the architectural profession and challenges students to locate and critically examine ethical and other problems within current…

Professional Practice

Paul Nakazawa

The objective of this seminar/workshop is to equip individuals who aspire to found a design practice with the basic knowledge and tools required to conceptualize…

The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management

Spiro Pollalis, Luis Rodriguez

WEB SITEhttps://icommons.harvard.edu/~gsd-7222/. COURSE DESCRIPTIONSeminar/Workshop, Rm 510Tuesdays 12-2 pm, and Thursdays 9:15-11 amSpiro N. Pollalis, Luis RodriguezLimited enrolment: 16 studentsThe Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had…

Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees

Carl Steinitz, Niall Kirkwood, Christine Smith, John R. Stilgoe, Richard T.T. Forman, Michelle Addington, Anne McGhee, T. Kelly Wilson, John Beardsley, Spiro Pollalis, Holly Clarke, Nicolas Retsinas, Joan Busquets, Robert France, Jeffrey Huang, Michael Meredith, Joseph MacDonald, Marco Cenzatti, Margaret Crawford

SummaryThis research seminar will examine social spaces in the academy using Harvard University as a case study. For purposes of this seminar and research study,…

Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch

Toshiko Mori

Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of the thesis program director.This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students research…

Product Design Research Methods

Richard Peiser, Marco Steinberg, Spiro Pollalis, Remment Koolhaas, Martin Zogran, Jerold S. Kayden, Jeffrey Inaba

What is design research? What are its criteria of success? The seminar/workshop will investigate design research methods as they related to Industrial Design. The seminar…

Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch

Nader Tehrani, Margaret Crawford, Joseph MacDonald, Joan Busquets, Preston Scott Cohen, Pierre de Meuron, Laura Miller, Daniel Schodek, A. Hashim Sarkis, Rafael Moneo, Monica Ponce de Leon, Ron Witte, Michelle Addington, Jacques Herzog, Jonathan Levi, Peter Rowe, Toshiko Mori

Prerequisites: GSD 9203.Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.

Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies

Spiro Pollalis

A student who selects this independent thesis for the degree Master in Design Studies pursues independent research of relevance to the selected course of study…

Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal

Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, Mona Serageldin, Michelle Addington, Alex Krieger, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Joan Busquets, Jeffrey Huang

Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.

Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design

Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, A. Hashim Sarkis, Michelle Addington, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Jeffrey Huang, Margaret Crawford, Antoine Picon

Faculty, Committee ChairpersonUnder guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.

Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Architecture

First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture

Preston Scott Cohen, Marco Steinberg, Jeannie Kim, Timothy Hyde, Samuel Lasky, Michael Meredith, Thomas Schroepfer

The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the practice of architectural design, discussing the theoretical principles on which such practice…

Third Semester Core: Architectural Design

Toshiko Mori, Nader Tehrani, Yoshiko Sato, Ashley Schafer, Joseph MacDonald, Brian Healy

Prerequisites: GSD 1101 and GSD 1102, or advanced standing in the MArch I program.The third of a four-semester sequence of design studios emphasizes the development…

Light/Materiality/Threshold: A Community Boathouse for Martha’s Vineyard

Maryann Thompson

Site:Located on the west shore of Vineyard Haven Harbor, the community boathouse site negotiates the edge condition between land and water, including a rocky beach…

The Chilean Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. The rigorous construction of a pleasant place

Alejandro Aravena

The most clarifying description about what architecture is supposed to do, was given by the Chilean architect Fernando Perez, in an essay entitled the Mirror…

City of Knowledge

Jonathan Levi

Approaching the \’City of Knowledge\’ along the Charles river you sense that you are passing into a place apart. The surreal spires, boldly shaped and…

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Educational Center

Stephen Cassell, Adam Yarinsky

This studio will explore architecture\’s role in support of a public institution. An institution\’s goals and ideals are manifest in a program that underlies how…

A Bridge and a Pavilion in Bilbao

Spiro Pollalis

The studio will focus on the design of a pedestrian bridge and a pavilion in Bilbao, Spain. The pedestrian bridge crosses the Ria del Bilbao…

Baseball in the City

Jeanne Gang

Project: Yankee StadiumThere has been little academic attention given to the design of stadiums. The lack of critical thinking is evidenced in the default formula…

Automotive Design as a Laboratory for Disciplinary Dynamics

Wes Jones

It may be a clichi to notice that the disciplinary boundaries of architecture have been loosened by advances in information technology, but it is not…

Berlin: The Museum Island and Beyond

Thomas Muller

Berlin: The Museum Island and BeyondAn architectural vision for the extension of the Museum IslandA new gallery for the Old MastersBerlin\’s Museum Island is the…

Dublin Studio

Merritt Bucholz, Karen McEvoy

Dublin Studio Karen McEvoy & Merritt BucholzIn collaboration with Matthias SchullerDublin StudioA CITY is a living organism, continually mutating, continually seeking equilibrium, continually challenged to…

Visual Studies

T. Kelly Wilson

Projective Representation in Architecture

Preston Scott Cohen

This course examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection. The objective is to provide the tools to imagine and…

Drawing in the City of Rome

T. Kelly Wilson

Kinetic Architecture

Kostas Terzidis

In architecture, the notion of motion is often represented as an abstract formal configuration that implies relationships of cause and effect. Deformation, juxtaposition, superimposition, absence,…

Sculpting in Motion

Allen Sayegh

Computer Graphics have opened up unprecedented ways of form making and animation. This unfolding new universe of visual stimuli that is based on complex geometry…

Algorithmic Architecture

Kostas Terzidis

As architecture enters the new era of digital representation, geometrical theories and processes are being implemented, tested, and pushed to their limits. Recent theories of…

Product Design: Industrial Design

Marco Steinberg

This first lecture module focuses on the historical aspect of product design. It seeks to evaluate the legacies of the practice by examining specific case…

Product Design: Industrial Design

Marco Steinberg

Following up on 2401M1, this second module focuses on contemporary issues of product design. We will examine emerging technologies, design opportunities, and the interrelation between…

Re-visions: Recording Architecture

Daniel Schodek

This course introduces advanced digital techniques and motion graphics as primary emerging modes of architectural representation. Surprisingly little use of these approaches has been made…

Special Offerings in Design Theory

Ashley Schafer

Provocation\”There is hardly any real architectural theory to be found, despite the diversity of practices at work today, anddespite a hugely expanded volume of architectural…

MArch II Proseminar

Jorge Silvetti

This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature. The course emphasizes collaborative thinking and…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

Christine Smith

Introduces foundational concepts of historical thinking as well as theoretical notions that have been relevant throughout architecture\’s history, such as form, technology, program, patronage, and…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

K. Michael Hays

This six-module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture from…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

K. Michael Hays

This six-module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture from…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

K. Michael Hays

This six-module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture from…

Film Architectures: Seminar Course

Giuliana Bruno